27 Nov 2000
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court recorded adverse findings against police personnel and ordered Rs 200,000.
Compensation ordered · Supports allegation (for the compensated wrong only).
Source: 2002 ACJ 1530
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CW-2000-0009West Delhi, DelhiJudgment 27 November 2000
Government of NCT of Delhi vs Nasiruddin (father of deceased [name withheld]. Tihar Man)
The judgment of the Delhi High Court records the following account. A Tihar man, about 21, was picked up by police on 15 April 1996, lodged in Tihar Jail and died there on 13 July 1996 with 15 ante-mortem injuries; a government medical board conceded several injuries could not have been self-inflicted. The State claimed he was a violent psychiatric patient injured while being restrained. The Division Bench rejected that plea, holding doctors examining him over 8-13 July 1996 could not have missed the injuries, and affirmed State liability in public law for the custodial death. It reduced compensation from Rs.2.5 lakh to Rs.2 lakh (Rs.1,25,000 already paid). Erring officials were not individually named. LPA against W.P.(Crl.) No.585/1996 judgment dated 16.12.1997. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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By judgment dated 27 November 2000, the Delhi High Court (Coram: Arijit Pasayat, D.K. Jain, JJ.) returned findings adverse to the accused police personnel, and directed payment of compensation of Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- Register number
- DL 04 CW 0003
- Case reference
- 2002 ACJ 1530
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court (Coram: Arijit Pasayat, D.K. Jain, JJ.), 27 November 2000
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Not identified in the cited sources (Tihar Jail)
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Not stated in the cited sources
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “there can be no doubt in view of background facts highlighted above about the State's liability to pay the compensation.” (at para 23)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Adverse finding + compensation. Sentence: compensation only. Compensation: Rs 2 lakh (Rs 2,00,000).
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Current position
The Delhi High Court judgment dated 27 November 2000 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
Custodial deathPrimary
Material fact supported
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“there can be no doubt in view of background facts highlighted above about the State's liability to pay the compensation.” (para 23)
Separate from verification
Institutional response
Continuing record
Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.